Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: HRIAP

The proposed activity's ultimate goal is to develop a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project identifying the mental health needs of Nunavimmiut youth and the adequate mental health promotion and prevention strategies to meet these needs. The CBPR project will be based on the CIHR Guidelines for Health Research Involving Aboriginal People. The specific aims of the proposed activity are to: develop new and consolidate existing partnerships; identify research questions and project terms though a consensus between partners; compose the research agreement for the CBPR project. We propose to conduct three meetings between September and November 2009. The meetings will unite various existing and new community partners with the researchers. The first meeting's (mid-September 2009) purpose will be to unite all potential research partners, including one or two youth from the community and discuss each other's expectations and roles within the CBPR project. The second meeting's (mid-October 2009) aim will be to develop specific research objectives as well as establishing the research methodology though a consensus building workshop. The third meeting's (mid-November 2009) goal will be to collectively draft the research agreement. Between each planned meeting, there will be ongoing contact (via telephone, e-mail and the use of an online Google group) between the researchers and the community partners. The principal applicant and her co-applicants will draft a detailed report of this activity and will submit it to the CIHR within three months following the last meeting. A completed research proposal will also be composed and submitted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's Aboriginal Research: Research Grants or to the CIHR Operating Grant: Aboriginal Health Intervention.